This is an
extremely important interview with one of the top
individuals in the world of national security, Jim
Rickards.

(excerpts)

“Things are
moving very quickly. General Martin
Dempsey, who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff has arrived in Israel and Israel is
integrating itself with the U.S. European
Command or EUCOM. So, at this point, the
integration of the Israeli and the US
operational capability, including NATO based in
Europe, is very far along.

There are an
enormous number of US troops in Israel. I
don’t know if people realize that, but they are
operating the THAAD system (Terminal High
Altitude Area Defense). They oversee
weapons that will shoot down incoming Iranian
missiles.

There are joint
exercises going on between the US and
Israel. At the same time Iran is
conducting war games. There are a lot of
moving pieces on the chessboard at this
point. This is not just war gaming or
thinking about what might happen, the pieces
have actually begun to move on the chessboard.

If Iran gets
nuclear weapons, Iran has said they will burn
Israel to the ground. So, this is not just
a strategic rebalancing, this is life or death
for the Israelis.....

“All of the
information I have is that the US is going to do
it (attack Iran). So the tension between
Israel and the United States is being resolved
in favor of letting the US actually launch the
attack.

Part of the
reason for this is the retaliation vector.
If the US attacks and Israel keeps out, then
Iran has no justification for attacking Israel.

This war will
be fought with air power, sea power,
cyberwarfare, financial warfare, sabotage,
special operation, assassination, things like
that. This is already going on. As
an example, yesterday a prominent Iranian
nuclear scientist had an unlucky encounter with
a magnet bomb.

So this war is
already being fought.

President Obama
sanctioned the (Iran) central bank about a week
ago. The Iranian currency, the rial,
dropped 30% in a single day.
Hyperinflation has broken out in Iran.
This is financial warfare.

My point to the
listeners is this is not theoretical, this is
not a war game, not an exercise, it’s happening
now and the clock is ticking.”